Tea party was right: IRS scandal shows federal government is too powerful

11:42 AM,
May 22, 2013

Written by

Sal Russo

Our Founding Fathers were fearful of a powerful federal government because it was a threat to liberty. The recent Internal Revenue Service scandal is the foreseeable and inevitable consequence of a too powerful federal government, and the validation of the mission of the tea party movement that stands firmly for a limited national government.

When our Constitution was being written, our leaders were wise enough to know that concentrated power inevitably leads to abuse. So they constructed a system of government that greatly limited the function of Washington to enumerated powers, and ...